Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 110

Now this king was very fond of money; and when he heard the miller’s boast his greediness was raised, and he sent for the girl to be brought before him.

Who acts: king, miller · What happens: be, hear, raise, send, bring, boast · To what, where: boast, greediness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, miller), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 fond	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fond	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 fond	advmod
6	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 money	case
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fond	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 heard	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 heard	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 miller	det
15	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 boast	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 miller	case
17	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 greediness	nmod:poss
19	greediness	greediness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 raised	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 raised	aux:pass
21	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 heard	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sent	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sent	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sent	nsubj
25	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 girl	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 girl	det
28	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sent	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	31 brought	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 brought	aux:pass
31	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 sent	advcl
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 brought	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this king		now	of money; fond property	tree rules
2	hear	past	king	the miller's boast			tree rules
3	raise	past · passive		king's greediness			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	send	past	king			for the girl	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	bring	to-infinitive · passive	king not said here		before king		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before he=Destination
6	boast		the miller				nom boast «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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